A three-dimensional optical illusion artwork designed to encourage people to think about the Syrian civil war was unveiled in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Thursday. The artwork, depicting a devastated cityscape in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, was shown at Meiji University’s Surugadai campus. ...

Microsoft has launched a new consumer offensive, unveiling a high-end computer that challenges the Apple iMac along with an updated Windows operating system that showcases three-dimensional content and “mixed reality.” The U.S. tech giant on Wednesday announced its first desktop computer, called Surface Studio, ...

Fujitsu Ltd. and the Japan Gymnastics Association will jointly develop a system to help judge gymnastics using three-dimensional laser sensors and data processing technology. The move seeks to address the “extraordinarily rapid advance of gymnastic techniques,” which has made it sometimes “difficult to accurately ...

Three-dimensional printing used to construct everything from art to toys to spare parts for space stations may one day produce human organs at a hospital near you. The 20-year-old technology uses liquid materials that become hard as they print out 3-D objects in layers, ...

A growing array of 3-D printing services has become available to Japanese consumers as the fabricating technique gains popularity, with businesses offering to create figurines shaped like customers or miniatures of pets, and even 3-D face models of unborn fetuses. To commemorate their engagement, ...

While Google prepares to release eyewear that provides a window to the Web, a startup on the edge of its campus is readying glasses that overlay the Internet on the world in 3-D. Atheer Labs on Thursday provided the first public look at prototype ...

Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers have shown it is possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells. The work, reported Wednesday, is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born ...

On her own, Japanese pop superstar Hatsune Miku can’t sing. Nor can she rap, dance or DJ. She is drug- and alcohol-free because she can’t indulge in either, and she can’t have affairs or engage in offstage shenanigans fit for YouTube scandals or tabloid ...